Protein Dance brings LOL to Surrey

Winner for the Best Independent Company at the 2011 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards, Protein Dance will be performing LOL (lots of love) at the Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford on Wednesday March 14.

Winner for the Best Independent Company at the 2011 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards, Protein Dance will be performing LOL (lots of love) at the Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford on Wednesday March 14.

Following the success of its 2011 tour including a six-night run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Luca Silvestrini’s critically acclaimed show returns for a spring 2012 tour.

LOL (lots of love) balances the promises of an online life and the complexity of real relationships to put love, wanting and connectedness centre-stage.

Against a video wall of dozens of screen-gazing individuals, Protein’s six dancers stylishly nail the language of life online, talking and dancing at speed and making straight-to-the-audience confessionals.

With video animation by Rachel Davies and original music by Andy Pink, these ingredients conjure a razor-sharp commentary on our Facebook society, and affect a rendering of human need.